9 thoughts on “Aftermath of the #Cologne New Years Eve Attacks”

Thanks a lot for this video and the ones following after.
I’d like to give ppl who read this a better understandng of the political environment you have to deal with in everday german life. But his might take some time.

AND it is essential to know this this to understand the thing going pon right now.

And no, the HAVEN’T learned anthing. In fact, a right wing party (AfD) which gained lots of votes in the past weeks is already EXCLUDED from a debate to the upcoming election in Baden Württemberg (a red/green coaltion run state (progressive left/moderate left))

And this is THE most important thing of the past few weeks: the cover up of the government AND the press on this whole issue.

And it is the first time in my life I absolutly understand HOW Hitler rose to power. Because ALL democratic discussion is silenced down by the government…for security reasons…or with the words of Lothar DeMaiziere (Minister of the interior): some informations would only bother sou (put out of context but in respond to similar questions concerning internal affairs).

Here is a brief overview on the german politic environment (from a practical point of view):

Biggest Parties:

CDU/CSU (Christlich Demokratische Union/Christlich Soziale Union): conservative parties. Not so much in a religions manner (except for the CSU which is only present in Bavaria), but more on the economic and social side of things. Strong supporters of mass suveillance and the police state. and “Leitkultur” (hard to explain…dominant culture principle?)

Considered right wing, but they really aren’t. They support left wing ideas when it comes to certain issues e.g. some specific social issues: immigration, money transfers to poor ppl. Influenced by christian views on things.

Nationalistic (moderate) / Collectivistic / Corporateistic (strongly!)
right leaning
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SPD (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands): liberal/left (moderate).
Really not much to say, even for the fact that they are the oldest party in Germany. But they have no real virtues these days.

Collectivistic (moderate)/ Corporateistic (very strongly, left)
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FDP (Freiheilich Demokratische Partei): left liberals BUT they aren’t. Closest to be a libertarian party (which the aren’t at all!!!) Focuses strongly on economic issues, left leaning when it comes to social issues. Right leaning when it comes to cultural and national things. Could be consideres as a “party of the middle class” but is losing lots of power to the point where the really have no power at all.

Indiviualistic (left leaning), Corporateistic (very moderate), Nationalstic (very moderate)
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Die Grünen: historically they have been a environmentalist party with left ideas. They closes would be environmetal progressivs. They are dening any national ideas and are pro-Mass immigration, pro-feminism, collectivism, even communism. The value individualism as long as they don’t interfere with their collectivist ideas……not much to say about this.

Collectivistic (strongly), communstic (moderate)
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AfD (Alternative für Deutschland): a realtivly new party. A right wing CSU.
Cnservatives in a social, cultural and economic sense. Nationalistic. Mixed up with extreme w´right wing nuts and some Nazis (but these are minorities even within this party!).

Collectivistic (strongly), Corporatistc (strongly)
right to extreme right
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Die Linke: formed out of the old SED of the GDR, they are considered as a true leftist party. Closest to being socialistic.
Very left if not extreme left when it comes to economic issues.

Collectivistic (strongly), communistic (moderate to strong)
left-extreme left)
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Iam an anarchist by heart but a real life libertarian with some “sympathy” for conservative ideas (just for the practical usage). So these descriptions are a bit subjective.

Of cource you can look up entries on e.g. wikipedia. These description here are based on ACTUAL behaviour and NOT on the ideas these parties represent (which is true if you look up e.g. wikipedia)

And please keep in mind, that parties have to overcome a 5% threshold in the elections. Meaning that ANY party which does not reach a minimum of 5% of the votes will not take part in the democratic process at all!!!

In the case of germany (pop. 81 Mio.) this is the equivalent of approx. 3,9 Mio voters per party which doesn’t reach more than 5%!

AND germany doesn’t have immigration laws for historic reasons. AND the big parties wll not support immigration laws up until today!

@Coverage:
I would contest that the treatment of the right, more specifically everything right of the CDU, is a ‘cover-up by government and press’.
I think it stems much more from the german-specific version of ‘never again!’
Germany, depending on who you ask, fucked up the world once or twice or more often. All these times there were dominant national-conservative currents among those to blame as well as fascists and nazis.
So from the start of the Bundesrepublik basic rights like freedom of speech and political expression were severly curtailed for both the left (KPD in the context of the cold war) as well as the right (the common theme of ‘lets ban the NPD’ every few years in one, the special laws for holocaust denial and ‘Volksverhetzung’ as well as the rather cavalier attitude when the rights of the right are infringed on).
A few years ago ‘Die Linke'(German socialist/communist left of the SPD which is center left) was routinely excluded (and by the way is excluded in this debate as well) and haragued in the press.
It is less cover-up and more an ailment of our ‘wehrhafte Demokratie’ (roughly: watchful democracy).

I would agree if it is stated as a misunderstanding of “wehrhafter Demokratie”, like right now, where certain cities stop their mardi gras festivities due to “safety concerns”.

A watchful democracy has to fight for certain principles (e.g. freedom of expression) not for a specific party and its ways. But german people also think “that’ll show them” if they vote for AfD instead of CxU (just as an example) and never consider a coalition of AfD and CxU which would make things worse…in my opinion.

So yes: it’s a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of the idea of a watchful democracy.

And an additonal method comes into concideration if you look at the cover-up: Korps-Geist.
More of that is needed if you ask certain members of the parity e.g. Volker Kauder / CDU.

What you have to know about german politics is that history plays a huge part. Everytime it comes to crimes someone else as a german has done, there is this narrative in both media and politics, that you shouldn’t report on it because it would recall very racist stereotypes in us germans and that would just lead to a new holocaust. Our elites are so distrustful (is that a word?) towards the population. But in not telling us the truth, they simply lose more and more trust themselves, because obviously people are skeptical and the truth always comes to the light after some time, embarrassing the elites.

Sargon is obviously too young to remember when the EXACT same stories were told about the Afro-Carribean blacks in England. I can remember opening a newspaper in the late 90s and reading about black gangs sealing off streets at either end and then raping every women stuck in the middle! And there was the female reporter from ‘The Word’ (remember that?) who was grabbed by the crowd and sexually assaulted multiple times. After that we were bombarded with stories of women assaulted in festival crowds. The argument was the same as it is today: men are brutes (especially foreign men) and if they are allowed to meet up in groups they’ll be a danger to women.

“The Sexual Attacks on Women in Europe Reflect a Misogynistic Mind-Set That Must Be Dismantled” Misoynistc mind-set, sounds almost like feminist conspiracy, doesn’t it? If we read the article we get the usual bollocks that men area animals and if allowed to congregate in large groups will reverts to brutes and rape every nearby female.

Yet AGAIN Sargon is taking as sources Feminists and right wing think tanks and newspaper to spread nonsense conspiracy theories.